40 second delay in sendmail

[Poofa]

Anyone,

I am running Linux Fedora Core 3. I use sendmail 8.1.3.1 I view email through outlook. When sending outgoing mail there's a 40 second delay. Even when using telnet to connect to port 25 I get the same delay.

 

[jkupski]

Is the client Windows XP SP2?

If so, allow port 113 inbound on the XP machine, and this should resolve your problem.

 

[QatQat]

Hi Poofa,

I have posted a possibel solution to your post in the linux server forum.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1215358&page=1

In future please do not post the same question in two fora; this practice is not encouraged on tek-tips.

Anyway, to summarize my reply, it could be a DNS problem. Are you using named on the same machine? check your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Sendmail is delaying because it tales long time to check the recipient.

Check alos your /etc/hosts file and make sure that your machine is identified correctly with a fully qualified domain name and if you do not have one, then set it to localhost.localdomain and not just localhost.

Cheers

QatQat

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